January update | 09/01/2020
Greetings medievalists, and happy holidays! Let’s start the new year with what we did since the last update:
[h3]Weather system[/h3]
The weather system is in the game, and it works nicely! The weather events we now have in place are rain, fog, and snow. We'll easily add more in the following months. Here are some fun facts on the weather system within Going Medieval:
[h3]Construction UX progress[/h3]
We've added “ruler" elements to building placement to make the experience a bit easier for the player - the rulers indicate where the player has hovered and where the construction has snapped. Also, we've managed to implement some grid graphics to make it a bit easier to understand the 3D space.
And while we are on the subject of constructions…
[h3]Building construction VFX[/h3]
We managed to implement a shader effect that makes the buildings rise from the ground along with the particle systems and dynamically generated foundation elements like scaffolding. Look at it go:
That’s it for now, we’ll have more to say in a couple of weeks! Thanks!
Foxy Voxel team
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/goingmedieval
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
Find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHxPbauqvg
[h3]Weather system[/h3]
The weather system is in the game, and it works nicely! The weather events we now have in place are rain, fog, and snow. We'll easily add more in the following months. Here are some fun facts on the weather system within Going Medieval:
- Weather events have a random appearance chance (those are adjustable per season - so don’t expect snow during summer)
- It will influence global temperature and with that, it will affect your workers (some examples: fog will lower their precision, while rain will lower range of some weapons (we are looking at you, rangers))
- You’ll be able to pause the game and see the raindrops and snowdrops clearly! You know what that means - the game is THAT optimized in the current state (look at those sweet, sweet raindrops)
[h3]Construction UX progress[/h3]
We've added “ruler" elements to building placement to make the experience a bit easier for the player - the rulers indicate where the player has hovered and where the construction has snapped. Also, we've managed to implement some grid graphics to make it a bit easier to understand the 3D space.
And while we are on the subject of constructions…
[h3]Building construction VFX[/h3]
We managed to implement a shader effect that makes the buildings rise from the ground along with the particle systems and dynamically generated foundation elements like scaffolding. Look at it go:
That’s it for now, we’ll have more to say in a couple of weeks! Thanks!
Foxy Voxel team
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/goingmedieval
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/going_medieval
Find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHxPbauqvg